I acknowledge that a work doesn’t need to be a groundbreaking piece of literature to be fun and entertaining. I thought I’d be able to look past the cliché fantasy tropes and clumsy plot devices and enjoy this book as a piece of popular fiction. I was wrong. I think the point I gave up on this book was when a bunch of centaurs appeared and began to address the protagonists using only the pronoun “thee”, no “thou” in sight, with third person subject-verb agreement. I can’t believe the author - or for heaven’s sake the editor - couldn’t have checked how “thee/thou”, “thy/thine” worked. It’s not exactly obscure grammar. It left me with the impression of a book hastily written, with little thought given to actual craft of writing. I pushed on further but gave up two thirds of the way through it.